My books 2018

I read a lot these last 12 months - 91 books, which is considerably more than in the years before. Last year I read 60 books, in 2016 I read 69 books, in 2015 I read 73 books, in 2014 I read 69 book.

I set my reading goal to 52 books again but I reached that number already in the middle of the year. I am not sure why I read so much. I knit less, I had two weeks of extra holidays, I was on sick leave for two weeks in June, maybe those are all factors that helped.  I never had a baisse all year, I basically kept reading all year long and when I started a good book I often finished it within a day or two.

There were quite a lot of rereads this year, because I was spending too much money for new books and also because I like reading good books a second time.

My favourites of 2018 were:

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
The Winston Brothers Series by Penny Reid
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Whisper Me This by Kerry Anne King
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Allie and Bea by Katherine Ryan Hyde
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Griffin
Burry Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

I loved diving into different lives, travelling along with interesting people and falling in love with handsome strangers ;-)